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Second Reading of Ordinance No. 18-1003, LE 17-02 Legislative Amendment to Adopt the McLoughlin-Canemah Trail Plan, Amending the Transportation System Plan, Trails Master Plan, and Parks Master Plan
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Approval of the McLoughlin-Canemah Trail Plan: Planning file LE 17-02 and the second reading of the Ordinance 18-1003.
BACKGROUND:
In 2016, the City of Oregon City, in partnership with the Oregon City Trail Alliance, the McLoughlin Neighborhood Association, and the Clackamas County Historical Society, was granted a Nature in Neighborhoods grant from Metro of $25,000 to fund a planning effort for the McLoughlin-Canemah Trail (MCT), a segment of the larger Oregon City Loop Trail.
The proposal updates and amends the Oregon City Transportation System Plan (2013), the Parks Master Plan (2008), and Trails Master Plan (2004) by adopting the McLoughlin-Canemah Trail Plan. These plans are Ancillary Documents to the Oregon City Comprehensive Plan. These plans have envisioned a trail connection between McLoughlin Promenade and Old Canemah Park, with links to Canemah Children's Park through the Canemah Historic District. The McLoughlin-Canemah Trail Plan is a concept plan that would refine the existing projects identified in the Transportation, Trails, and Parks plans to to determine an alignment for a permanent trail, and to identify an interim trail alignment and safety upgrades.
The plan has been approved and recommended by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, the Transportation Advisory Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the Planning Commission. The City Commission closed the record and approved the first reading on March 21, 2018.